8 PEEFACE. 



the Far l^orth " was an important contribution to tJie 

 Archives of the Smithsonian Institution (United States 

 National Museum) ; and his " Notes on and List of Birds 

 and Eggs Collected in Arctic America," if not exhaustive, 

 was a similarly valuable addition to its records. It seemed 

 to the writer very desirable that this information, hidden 

 away in the " Proceedings " of a foreign scientific institu- 

 tion, should be given to the Canadian public, and, by Mr. 

 MacFarlane's kind consent and wish, he is now enabled, with 

 pleasure to himself and profit to his readers, to connect it 

 with his own narrative of the Treaty Expedition of 1899. 



The author has tried to make his narrative not merely an 

 official record, but interesting as an itinerary, and to impart 

 to it something of the novelty and fervour of his own sensa- 

 tions at the time. Notwithstanding its shortcomings in these 

 respects, it may yet be of service in attracting to the remark- 

 able regions described the pioneer who is not afraid of toil, 

 or the traveller who loves the unprofaned sanctities of 

 Nature. 



